I don't decorate for the holidays. Ever. Well, I do have a Christmas tree, but I keep it up all year round. It's one of those Charlie Brown Christmas trees. So it doesn't really count. Because it's up all year.

I just never got into decorating. When I was a kid, I hated it because all the decorations went up the day after Thanksgiving. That was a WHOLE MONTH before Christmas. It was hard enough waiting for it, but when you were reminded that Christmas was coming everywhere you looked....

These days I don't decorate because I live alone and I have cat's. I see no point in putting up decoration to only take them down a little later.

My sister loves it, though. So does my step-mom. They both go all out. My sister is a bit worse, though. She has ~30 trees, all decorated, in her house. Most are small ones, but she has at least 3 full sized ones.

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No....I'm not the only odd one in my family...

Anyway, last year I wrote an Otterized version of 'A Visit From St. Nicholas'. I was going to repost it, but after reading it again, I decided not to. Instead, I'm going to come up with another one.